I know this isn’t the kind of news Linux fans were hoping to read on Christmas Day, but unfortunately, on a day meant for faith, kindness, and hope, others are choosing to act in exactly the opposite way.
Many of you probably remember the problems Arch faced just a few months ago due to massive DDoS attacks, which mainly affected the AUR. Sadly, just when it seemed those issues were behind, a new large-scale DDoS attack on Christmas Day once again made the distribution’s website effectively inaccessible.
All this over Pascal support?!?!
Why ipv6 only though? Is there something about it that makes it more resilient to DDOS? If a device on the botnet has both ipv4 and ipv6 I don’t see how it’s mitigated
I just figured the chances of the devices in a botnet being ipv6 is like 5% or less
I know the Arch community is kind of rough, but any reason we know of that they’re being targeted? Feels like a weird target for any major actors to prioritize for destabilization.
Anybody more tech-savvy than my grandma can order botnet attacks nowadays. And due to it’s memed community it’s an obvious target.
On a more tinfoil hat note: Arch is the base of SteamOS…
SteamOS builds off arch pretty rarely so unless they plan on ddosing for 6 months this doesnt impact steamOS at all.
Its probably someone who got banned from the community trying to make a statement.
I know (or more honestly guessed so). It was meant to be a joke, hence the tinfoil hat reference ;)
DDoS is cheap to buy on the dark web it could be anybody with a grudge and a few thousand USD. It often costs more to mitigate the attacks than to launch them.
I seem to recall hearing speculation that the person behind this had their AUR packages deleted because they were posting malware. I’ve only heard this second-hand so it could be complete bullshit, but it seems plausible given some of the fucking adult babies we have out in the world.
